• Challenge,  publishing,  workshops

    Deductions

    Paying Attention to Your Taxes? If, in the best world (which I must admit almost no writers live in), you would have already figured your income for 2021 from your writing and the expenses you can take that income down to make sure you don’t pay taxes. Yeah, and cows can fly. But that is the right way to do it, and honestly, except for 2020, I come close each year to knowing exactly what WMG Publishing made and our tax situation by the last week of the month. I don’t have it to the penny, but I know. (Let’s just say that 2020 surprised me on the income to…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    All Collection Classes Now Available

    And Both Bundles of Each Year’s Classes Collection Classes are nine weeks long and you end up publishing a collection based on the theme in the 9th week. We do six different classes per year. The six from last year that are all available again in 2022 are: Portals, Heroes and Heroines, Private Eyes, Holiday, Fantasy, and Relationships. The new six for 2022 will also extend into 2023 if you miss one… I will be putting up other sessions later in the week. Right now just the first sessions are up. The new collection classes are: Pets, Spies, Space Opera, Thieves, Dynasty, and Time Travel. In these classes you learn…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    I Think I Am Ready…

    …To Start My Challenge… For those of you new here or not following my trying to make a decision on a new challenge for 2022 all those weeks ago, here is what I decided to do in shorthand. — I will write a new short story per day every day of the year in 2022. — I will blog at least once a week, maybe twice a week about the stories being written and the days of writing. — I will do a cover for every short story as I go along and show it to you. — Each month the stories and the blogs and the covers will be…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Three New Collection Classes Are Up…

    Pets, Spies, and Space Opera Those are the three topics for the nine week collection classes that have started in 2022. Pets starts in January, Spies starts in March, and Space Opera starts in May. Also all six of the 2021 Collection Classes have sessions in 2022 as well. Their themes are Portals, Heroes and Heroines, Private Eyes, Holiday, Fantasy, and Relationships. I will have the last three new ones posted in the next few days, along with a bundle that you can get all six new ones for the price of five. There is already a bundle there for the first six. In these classes you learn in general…

  • Challenge,  Fun Stuff,  workshops

    What Did I Do On My Holiday?

    Got That Question a Number of Times… Answer is basically the same thing I do every normal day of the year. I worked on getting the workshop sale up and going. You can read all about that in the last two blogs. 50% off until January 4th on everything on Teachable. (Just put in the code YearEnd after you hit purchase.) I worked with Kris at lunches on more classes. I will record those soon. And I did a bunch of recording as well including the Motivational Monday I just put up a bit ago. I wore a red shirt to record those because I recorded them on Christmas. (Does…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    New Workshops

    Already Up and Others Coming in the Next Three Days… All six of last year’s collection classes are now up and the Pets Collection class is up starting in January as well. I hope to have the entire 2022 schedule by the end of the week if you are interested in taking collection classes. And the Pulp Speed regular workshop is up in February now. The Decade Ahead year of classes is all set and ready to go for 2022. Starting over, although we left in two of the Pop-Ups that we had included on the first attempt back in 2020. Videos on that first month of that year-long class…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Year-End Workshop Sale

    Starts Today (Christmas Morning)… And runs to January 4th, which is ten days. The code is YearEnd to get 50% off any workshop or challenge or lecture or Pop-Up or anything on Teachable. This is on Teachable. All of the January and February regular workshops are up and available, including the new Pulp Speed workshop in February. And we have up at least 54 Pop-Up classes. The challenges of doing a short story per week, a novel every two months, or publishing a major project every month are available in this as well. Also the best deals are the lifetime subscriptions. Six new Study Along workshops are listed for just…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Workshop Sale Starting Christmas Day

    Yup, A Year-End Workshop Sale… It will start on December 25th and run through January 4th, so basically our ten day sale. Everything that is on WMG Teachable and available will be 50% off. That includes… … All Workshops. … All Classes … All Lectures … All Challenges … All Collection Classes … All Study-Along Classes … All Pop-Up Classes … All Subscriptions (including Lifetime to Workshops and to Study Along) Everything on Teachable. That means it does not include the In-Person classes here in Vegas (they are not on Teachable) and this time it will not include the overall Master Business Class. But everything active On Teachable will be…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    January and February Workshops

    Includes New Pulp Speed Workshop… And yes, the Pulp Speed Workshop has been included in the Lifetime Workshop Subscription and no, if you have a lifetime subscription, you do not have to tell me you are going to take it. I’ll know when you turn in the first assignment. The Pulp Speed workshop starts February 2nd. The idea is to help you increase your productivity with your fiction so that you work towards Pulp Speed One (a million words a year). Even if you don’t want to get that far, this class will help in increasing productivity. And yes, Allyson and Kris convinced me. We will have a year-end sale starting…

  • Challenge,  Fun Stuff

    Odds and Ends

    Just Some Quick Misc Stuff Tonight… — Kris’s Fey novella is really, really good. All of us have been waiting over 20 some years for Kris to go back to the Fey. And now there is a promise of another novel or two or three. But last night I got to read a Fey novella, and all I can say was it is great. And Fey. I want to thank everyone who supported the Fey Kickstarter to give her a boost back. It worked and I will be updating everyone next week there. — Update on Master Business Class. I will email the entire class when the next eight or…